A story in the Boston Herald caught my attention. A school Principal is under scrutiny this week because she wrote a romance novel.
The article states: The novel contains sex scenes, and refers to drug use and binge drinking.
To which my response was… *gasp* Imagine that… people have sex. It’s called procreation. How did you think all those students got in that school in the first place? The stork brought them? A little catty perhaps, but my tolerance for folks who have a problem with sex in books is getting pretty thin.
And drug use…gee, no one in America, Australia, or Madagascar has ever used drugs. I’m sure of it.
What do you think? Do you have a problem with teachers writing romance novels? Do you think they should be fired because of their chosen genre? Would you want thriller, mystery, suspense and horror writers fired?
Aside from all that, the article also states that the Principal was selling the self published book at faculty meetings and they thought that was inappropriate. I’m not sure how I feel about that as teachers are expected to buy things from those fundraisers and selling candy bars isn’t much different from selling books.
Thoughts?
Care for another? (aka random posts)
|
Must read: Review: Scalded by Desiree Holt and Allie Standifer http://ping.fm/p3erz |
|
Leigh Ellwood
April 29th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
It’s my understand Stephen King wrote Carrie while he was a teacher, and I don’t believed he was fired for it.
Of course, eventually that became a non-issue.
Lisa Logan
April 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Fundraisers to benefit the school and selling ones’ own personal book for profit on the job are two very different things. I can understand a principal coming under scrutiny for writing “naughty” things on the side, though I can’t see how they could get away with firing them over it. However, it is quite common to prohibit employees from engaging in outside sales while on duty, and that IS a firing offense.
Cissy
April 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I was ready to be mightily annoyed about this, but from the article, it looks like the bigger problem is that they’re alleging she wrote it on school time and tries to promote it at faculty meetings. I can see where that would be a problem no matter what she wrote.
Margay
April 29th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I just wanted to back up what Cissy said. I saw this on the news last night and the issue wasn’t about the genre of the book, per se, but that she was trying to peddle it to school faculty members on school time (I believe they were actually in a board meeting – about school issues – at the time). Just writing the book shouldn’t be grounds for dismissal, but when you try to sell it to people on school time, that is something entirely different.
Margay